Miss Holmes, the Professor Is Not a Villain

Sanitary Engineer says:

Read up to ch 50:
Usually, I only don’t read a full batch of chapters from a novel if I dislike it but this time, it’s because this novel is too sad for me personally. This is an alternate world where professor Moriarty is a bored and disillusioned 25 year male genius while Holmes is still a happy young female genius (like around 14). The story starts light and cute, all from the perspective of Moriarty. He’s a genius and he’s bored until he ends up tutoring a genius little girl named Holmes. He find joy in giving her puzzles and loves spending time with her. At the beginning of the story, they’re both the light in their lives as the only people smart enough to understand each other. It’s cute, it’s great and it’s so sad where the story decides to go after this prologue. This story gets real dark after this beautifully picturesque opening and if you’re interested in seeing a dark story, I recommend you stop reading my review and just try it.

If you’re still here, then the story continues when Moriarty’s tutoring contract is close to ending. He doesn’t want to stop tutoring Holmes and he sees her loving parents as obstacles since they personally want her to be just a simple noble lady. The actions he does afterwards are unforgivable, even for any reason. He chooses to make Holmes father shoot his own wife and then proceed to kill himself after. He does this by spreading rumors that his wife is cheating on him, taking advantage of the father’s alcoholic tendencies and loading the father’s gun. Afterwards, he just waits for the people to do what he wants.

This is who Moriarty really is, a monster. This MC torments a small girl who admired and has a crush on him by making her loving parents die. He makes her hate him so that’s she’d continue to solve the puzzles he makes as they both grow older. His life is so full of boredom that he decided to monopolize and break a little girl to make sure the only light in his life will always be his.

This premise is great, interesting and definetely emotional. It made me impressed and shocked to see that this is a serious novel with a new take on the Sherlock Holmes parody trend Koreans have nowadays. I love it’s idea, I just don’t read web novels to be sad. If this sounds like your cup of tea, I highly recommend it. For me personally, I’ll stick with the gag novels.